Martin Alois RohrmeierTeaching & PhD PhD Students Joris Monnet, Marina Borsodi-Benson, Xinyi Guan, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zeng Ren Past EPFL PhD Students Fabian Claude Moss, Daniel Harasim, Christoph Finkensiep, Johannes Hentschel, Gabriele Cecchetti, Shuxin Meng Courses Digital musicology DH-401 This course will introduce students to the central topics in digital musicology and core theoretical approaches and methods. In the practical part, students will carry out a practical project. Musical theory and creativity
Marie Estelle Solange ViolayExpertise
-Rock mechanics-Rock physics-Fault and earthquake mechanics-Hydro-mechanical couplings
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Cindy Mikaelian, Francesco Lazari, Franco Matías Robbiano Muñoz, Karin Andrea Hofer Apostolidis, Andrea Mazzeo Past EPFL PhD Students Felipe Orellana, Mateo Acosta, Chiara Cornelio, Corentin Noël, Federica Paglialunga, Antoine Guggisberg Courses Designing Testing Machines for Geomechanics ME-700 Develop your own machines to meet your scientific needs. Learn how to bu
Friedhelm Christoph HummelExpertise
Stroke recovery Healthy Aging Motor Control Motor Learning Cognitive Control Neuroplasticity Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Structural and functional Neuroimaging Connectivity
Postal Address Campus Biotech
Defitech Chair of Clinical Neuroengineering Brain Mind Institute, SV Neuro X Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL Campus Biotech Rm H4.3.132.084, 9, Chemin des Mines 1202 Geneva
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Maria Ploumitsakou, Simona Losacco, Fabienne Windel, Andrea Protani, Sta
Philip Neil GarnerTeaching & PhD PhD Students Yesmine Abdennadher, Mutian He, Elija Maria Vida Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Mohammadjavad Taghizadeh, Pierre-Edouard Jean Charles Honnet, Sibo Tong, Bastian Schnell, Alexandre Samuel Philippe Bittar, Louise Clothilde Coppieters De Gibson, Haolin Chen
Esther AmstadEsther Amstad studied material science at ETH in Zurich. She also carried out her PhD thesis at the same University under the supervision of Prof. Marcus Textor; for her thesis, she worked on the surface modification and steric stabilization of oxide nanoparticles. As a postdoctoral fellow, she joined the experimental condensed soft matter group of David A. Weitz at Harvard University where she used droplet based microfluidics to assemble different types of functional micro- and nanomaterials. In addition, she developped new microfluidic devices that enable the production of very small, airborne drops as well as devices that produce highly monodisperse emulsion drops at a very high throughput. In June 2014, Esther joined the material science department (IMX) of EPFL where she is leading the Soft Materials Laboratory (SMAL).
Federico TerziTeaching & PhD Courses Music, politics and society I HUM-406 This course examines the presence of exotic musical characteristics (popular and folkloric) - in Europe and beyond - in art music (17th-20th centuries). It culminates in a group (or individual) research paper on a subject related to this theme. Music, politics and society II HUM-458 This course examines the presence of exotic musical characteristics (popular and folkloric) - in Europe and beyond - in art music (17th
Francesco RomanoExpertise
Gyrotrons, Non-Neutral Plasma, Electric Space Propulsion, Helicon Plasma Thrusters, Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion
Current Work
The TRapped Electrons eXperiment - T-REX
Born in Sassari and grew up in Udine, I studied Aerospace Engineering for Bachelor, Master in Italy and I've earned my Ph.D. in Germany. I also graduated in organ and organ composition at the conservatory in Italy. I Love space, science, music (piano, organ, classical, classic rock), endurance and uphill cycling, classic
Hervé LissekExpertise
Acoustics and audio engineering, Electroacoustics.Room acoustics.Active noise control.Acoustic metamaterials.Assisted reverberation.Psychoacoustics.Sound spatialization
Expertise
Acoustics and audio engineering, Electroacoustics.Room acoustics.Active noise control.Acoustic metamaterials.Assisted reverberation.Psychoacoustics.Sound spatialization
Mission
Head of the Acoustic Group at the Laboratory of Wave Engineering LWE. Research topics :Active Electroacoustic Resonators: turning conventional lou
Davide UgliettiTeaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Ortensia Dicuonzo
Benjamin Jérémy Laurent HeutteAwards Poster Prize Award Royal Society of Chemistry 2025 Best Poster Award - 2nd Prize Doctoral School of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2024
Fabio AvinoEducation PhD in Physics | Turbulence at the boundary of toroidal plasmas with open and closed magnetic flux surfaces 2011 – 2015 EPFL Master in Physics | Rifrattometria su Plasmi di Interesse Termonucleare 2008 – 2010 La Sapienza Bachelor in Physics | Fluorescenza X portatile per l'analisi dei beni culturali 2005 – 2008 La Sapienza Professionals experiences Physicist - Senior Fellow 2017–2020 CERNScientist 2016–2017 EPFL
Teaching & PhD P
Samy BengioExpertise
Large Language ModelsReasoningStatistical machine learningSpeech processingPerson authenticationMultimodal processingSequence processingArtificial neural networks, support vector machinesHidden markov models, gaussian mixture modelsetc
Expertise
Large Language ModelsReasoningStatistical machine learningSpeech processingPerson authenticationMultimodal processingSequence processingArtificial neural networks, support vector machinesHidden markov models, gaussian mixture modelsetc
Mission
Samy Bengio
François MaréchalPh D. in engineering Chemical process engineer
Researcher and lecturer in the field of computer aided process and energy systems engineering.
Lecturer in the mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and environmental sciences engineering in EPFL.
I'm responsible for the Minor in Energy of EPFL and I'm involved in 3 projects of the Competence Center in Energy and Mobility (2nd generation biofuel, Wood SOFC, and gas turbine development with CO2 mitigation) in which i'm contributing to the energy conversion system design and optimisation.
Short summary of my scientific carrer
After a graduation in chemical engineering from the University of Liège, I have obtained a Ph. D. from the University of Liège in the LASSC laboratory of Prof. Kalitventzeff (former president of the European working party on computer aided process engineering). This laboratory was one of the pioneering laboratory in the field of Computer Aided Process Engineering.
In the group of Professor Kalitventzeff, I have worked on the development and the applications of data reconciliation, process modelling and optimisation techniques in the chemical process industry, my experience ranges from nuclear power stations to chemical plants. In the LASSC, I have been responsible from the developments in the field of rational use of energy in the industry. My first research topic has been the methodological development of process integration techniques, combining the use of pinch based methods and of mathematical programming: e.g. for the design of multiperiod heat exchanger networks or Mixed integer non linear programming techniques for the optimal management of utility systems. Fronted with applications in the industry, my work then mainly concentrated on the optimal integration of utility systems considering not only the energy requirements but the cost of the energy requirements and the energy conversion systems. I developed methods for analysing and integrating the utility system, the steam networks, combustion (including waste fuel), gas turbines or other advanced energy conversion systems (cogeneration, refrigeration and heat). The techniques applied uses operation research tools like mixed integer linear programming and exergy analysis. In order to evaluate the results of the utility integration, a new graphical method for representing the integration of the utility systems has been developed. By the use of MILP techniques, the method developed for the utility integration has been extended to handled site scale problems, to incorporate environmental constraints and reduce the water usage. This method (the Effect Modelling and Optimisation method) has been successfully applied to the chemical plants industry, the pulp and paper industry and the power plant. Instead of focusing on academic problems, I mainly developed my research based on industrial applications that lead to valuable and applicable patented results. Recently the methods developed have been extended to realise the thermoeconomic optimisation of integrated systems like fuel cells. My present R&D work concerns the application of multi-objective optimisation strategies in the design of processes and integrated energy conversion systems.
Since 2001, Im working in the Industrial Energy Systems Laboratory (LENI) of Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where Im leading the R&D activities in the field of Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Industrial Energy Systems with a major focus on sustainable energy conversion system development using thermo-economic optimisation methodologies. A part from the application and the development of process integration techniques, that remains my major field of expertise, the applications concern :
Rational use of water and energy in Industrial processes and industrial production sites : projects with NESTLE, EDF, VEOLIA and Borregaard (pulp and paper).Energy conversion and process design : biofuels from waste biomass (with GASNAT, EGO and PSI), water dessalination and waste water treatment plant (VEOLIA), power plant design (ALSTOM), Energy conversion from geothermal sources (BFE). Integrated energy systems in urban areas : together with SCANE and SIG (GE) and IEA annexe 42 for micro-cogeneration systems.
I as well contributed to the definition of the 2000 Watt society and to studies concerning the emergence of green technologies on the market in the frame of the Alliance for Global Sustainability.
Sandrine PerroudCurious by nature, the transmission of knowledge fascinates me. I joined EPFL in 2016, after having worked at the Communication office of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in Bern and as a journalist in the Lake Geneva region (24 heures/Tribune de Genève, Le Temps, Uniscope).
Benoît CrouzyTeaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Sophie Erb Courses Environmental transport phenomena ENG-420 The course aims at introducing basic physical aspects of molecular and turbulent diffusion, as well as of dispersion processes, their mathematical modeling, solutions and related environmental applications
Tatiana PieloniExpertise
Beam dynamics in accelerators.Colliders luminosity and beam-beam interactions.Collective effects.
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Yi Wu, Lode Vanhecke Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Xavier Buffat, Claudia Tambasco Courses Advanced concepts in particle accelerators PHYS-751 Accelerator physics covers a wide range of very exciting topics. This course presents basic physics ideas and the technologies underlying the workings of modern accelerators. An overview of the new ideas and
